Maybe I'm crazy but think about this. The most incredible, powerful, useful thing in the world is free and it is built on on open source. The internet! Maybe if we did away with copyrights and patents, everything would bloom like it has. Maybe instead a company holding a patent for a drug at three hundred dollars a bottle we let competition bring the price down. It would cause losses for the the powers that rule us, but it would create competition so companies would try harder to innovate. See More

"Yep, almost the whole thing. I could not read that psalms thing. So painfully boring. I really believe that if people were forced to read it, those crazy people that have never read much of it would go away!"

"Beauty like everything else is a learned, reinforced by the herd behavior. Life is so much better when you can escape that. I liked the alien looking girl better on The Twilight Zone. More character.
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"The whole Jesus myth is a repetition of the same things said about numerous other gods that predate Jesus. Go look up Mithras, Horus, and Osirus for starters. There is nothing about Jesus that can't be attributed to an earlier god. Only…"

"Even though I tell people I'm an atheist, it's just so they can pigeon hole me in something they understand. To me, I just am what I am. Not believing isn't something you do, it's something you don't do. I'm a…"

" I've worked in 2 companies where the workers are told "times are tough no raises" but at the same time senior management has their income doubled. It doesn't take an advanced degree to understand that if the millionaires…"

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Atheist

About Me:

Existentialist, social nihilist, Buddhist influenced atheist. Haven't watched television for years. Don't even own a TV. Life couldn't be better living outside the social pressures of the normal. I spend my time learning.

Age

53-58

Why are you here?

I don't care. This popped up while I was stumbling so, I joined. Life is like riding a bottle rocket, who can know where it will take me and I never live with expectations. I just live.

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Maybe I'm crazy but think about this. The most incredible, powerful, useful thing in the world is free and it is built on on open source. The internet! Maybe if we did away with copyrights and patents, everything would bloom like it has. Maybe instead a company holding a patent for a drug at three hundred dollars a bottle we let competition bring the price down. It would cause losses for the the powers that rule us, but it would create…